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There is a huge difference between a $200 Android phone vs a $1000 iPhone, and why people choose the latter is easy to see. The line gets much blurrier after $5
by o1y32 3y ago
There is a huge difference between a $200 Android phone vs a $1000 iPhone, and why people choose the latter is easy to see. The line gets much blurrier after $500. I have a Samsung "flagship" that is near three years old but is still rocking. Performance is still good. It won't receive new OS upgrades but will continue to receive security updates for another year, when I'll be looking for a new phone. (Latest Samsung phones have a longer support timeframe.)
I see people say an iPhone lasts many years but you need to get a new Android phone every 1-2 years. That hasn't been true for quite a while for middle- and high end phones. And I don't see myself paying more for an iPhone when I barely get any benefits.
- voidwtf 3y agoYou hit the nail on the head with OS upgrades and longevity. Android consistently found a way to stop offering me OS updates. Whether it was the manufacturer, or the phone carrier, I would by a flagship phone and within 2 years stop receiving OS updates. Meanwhile, I switched to Apple and skip 2-4 generations at a time and hand down my phones to my kids, who still receive updates. It was only the end of last year that we phased the last iPhone 6 out of our family, a phone released September of 2015. A phone Apple replaced the battery in for $35 halfway through its lifetime. I’ll never own an Android phone as long as the carriers have any control over OS updates or baked in applications. Oh, and let’s not forget while phone backups automatically to the cloud. Every new phone I’ve purchased has continued on right where the last one left off. Settings and customizations I setup in 2015 are still working to this day on a phone that’s only a year old.
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